Noche de Candela, Part 3 - September 15, 2006; NFU@JosephPuentes.com

Noche de Candela - September 15, 2006 "Noches de Candela" poetic
vigils are a series of literary events aimed at invoking the
Oshun-Chango spirit to produce a major "Rumba in San Juan de Ulua"
fortress in Veracruz, Mexico summer 2007 where humanists are to
meet to pay homage to the African ancestors through their song and
witnessing. San Juan de Ulua was the door of entry for hundreds of
thousands of enslaved Africans during the Spanish colonial period
which lasted around three hundred years in that region of the
continent now a part of Mexico. This foremost chapter of the
history of the diverse African presence and permanence in Mexico
has been kept silent. The souls of these ancestors are trapped in
oblivion, official negation and the Eurocentric account of the
facts that has dominated Mexican history. The common thread for
these events will be "Marronage and Manumission in the Americas: an
Alternate Vision of Planetary History."